In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.

As Eliot House prepares for extensive renovations, students expressed concern over the plans to remove a historic piano, donated to the house by Leonard ... students to play the Bernstein piano ...

"It goes wherever it's going" Leonard Bernstein became the most famous conductor in America ... the first performance of his song cycle "I Hate Music," partying and playing piano until dawn. At 9 a.m.

Leonard Bernstein needs to ... The scene is part of Peter Danish’s new play Last Call, about a chance 1988 encounter between Bernstein and von Karajan at the famed Hotel Sacher in Salzburg ...

Leonard – or 'Lenny' – Bernstein was an American composer ... When he was very young, Bernstein first heard someone playing a piano and he was captivated immediately. He decided he wanted ...

‘One-man bridge’ would be an appropriate description for Bernstein. Like no other musician of his ... wrote complex symphonies and 12-tone music but who was equally happy playing piano and writing ...

For much of the 20th century, the world of classical conducting was dominated by two figures: Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, who fiercely competed with each other throughout their ...